Mapping The North
One of the site's centrepiece sets out to deliver a history of the region by focusing on European exploration, settlement, and development of North Queensland through maps and other documents that chart the process.
As such, a settler narrative should acknowledge the landscape those explorers and settlers encountered.
It should also recognise the historical processes that brought the Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, English, French and Australian travellers into the region.
Those matters, along with the physical and human environment that the outsiders encountered, form the basis of Origins, Indigenes, and Antecedents.
Prelude: Tracing An Outline fits the pre-settlement exploration of the area into a global and continental perspective.
Six Voyages: Half a dozen maritime expeditions produce an outline of Queensland's northern coast.
Adding Detail: The European exploration of The North between 1788 and Queensland's Separation from New South Wales on 6 June 1859.
Northern Queensland: Following Separation, the settlement of the Kennedy Pastoral District begins filling in the blank spaces on the map of The North.
